Andrew Kang is a financial advisor with Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC in Chicago, IL, holding Series 63 and Series 65 designations and bringing nine years of industry experience. Prior to joining Chicago Partners in 2020, he worked at TD Ameritrade and has experience outside finance with a venture called It's Boba Time. Chicago Partners Investment Group provides investment advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, trusts, nonprofits, endowments, corporations, and family offices. The firm employs a long-term, diversified, asset-allocation investment approach that combines fundamental analysis with quantitative optimization across a range of strategies including mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and alternatives.

Robin House is a financial advisor with 14 years of industry experience, currently with Alphastar Capital Management. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at firms including Savant Wealth Management and The Marshall Financial Group. Outside of advising, he owns Undiscovered College, a college consulting business. Alphastar Capital Management serves individual, corporate, and retirement plan clients with discretionary investment management, financial planning, and subadvisory services. The firm employs model portfolios and third-party technology to implement strategic and tactical investment approaches across a broad range of asset types.

Zachary Bittenbender is a financial professional at Northern Trust Securities, Inc. with one year of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and previously worked at Cetera and Jewel-Osco. His other business activities include providing financial services through North Star Resource Group. Northern Trust Securities, Inc. is an SEC-registered investment adviser and FINRA-registered broker-dealer serving high-net-worth individuals, retail investors, and institutional clients. The firm offers model-driven discretionary portfolio management using a range of proprietary and third-party investment products, with oversight through a governance process and regular account reviews.

Daniel Tresemer is a CFP® professional affiliated with HighPoint Planning Partners, with 29 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has been associated with LPL Financial since 2007 and has held roles at HighPoint Advisor Group, LLC, including co-managing partner and branch manager of OnPath Financial. Tresemer is also involved with OnPath Outreach, a for-profit board dedicated to charitable service initiatives. HighPoint Advisor Group serves a diverse client base, including individuals, pension plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and corporate entities. The firm offers a range of services such as discretionary asset management, financial planning, retirement plan advisory, and utilizes various investment platforms and strategies tailored to client needs.

Joshua Rauterkus is a CFP® professional with five years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Curi Capital, LLC in Denver, CO. Prior to joining Curi Capital, he worked at RMB Capital Management and Moneta Group Investment Advisors, LLC. He attended school full time for sixteen years before beginning his advisory career. Curi Capital serves a diverse client base including individuals, families, institutions, retirement plan sponsors, and charitable organizations. The firm manages approximately $9.83 billion using a long-term, fundamental investment approach that combines in-house strategies with external managers and proprietary risk analysis tools.

Dimitri Eliopoulos is a CFP® with 25 years of industry experience, currently serving at Curi Capital, LLC. He has worked with Curi Capital and its predecessor firms since 2010, including RMB Capital Management, LLC. Curi Capital provides wealth management, asset management, retirement plan solutions, and family office services to individuals, families, institutions, corporate clients, and charitable organizations. The firm manages approximately $9.83 billion and employs a long-term, fundamental investment approach that combines in-house strategies with external managers and proprietary risk analysis tools.

Paula Sauer is a financial advisor at Zacks Investment Management, Inc. in Chicago, IL, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 21 years of industry experience. She has been with Zacks & Company and Zacks Investment Management since 2004. Zacks Investment Management provides discretionary portfolio management to a diverse client base including individuals, trusts, retirement plans, and institutional investors. The firm employs a proprietary investment process combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, offering a wide range of strategies and serving both direct clients and third-party advisers through model portfolios and alternative funds.

Margherita Johnson is a CFP® with 24 years of industry experience, currently affiliated with Capital Analysts. She has worked with Lincoln Investment Planning since 2011 and operates an independent insurance agency, Your Broker Financial, where she sells life insurance, fixed annuities, and health, disability, and long-term care insurance. Capital Analysts serves a diverse client base including individual and high-net-worth investors, retirement plans, trusts, and corporate clients. The firm provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management supported by an in-house investment management team, offering various advisory and customized investment solutions.

James Beran is a financial advisor with Sequent Planning, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and having one year of industry experience. He has operated the James W Beran Insurance Agency Ltd since 2011, providing insurance products and services. Sequent Planning, LLC serves individuals, retirement plan sponsors, small and medium-sized businesses, endowments, and nonprofit organizations. The firm offers asset management, financial planning, third-party model manager access, and comprehensive retirement-plan services through a network of independent advisers using a structured risk framework and diversified investment approaches.

Daniel Breier is a financial advisor at Forum Financial Management, LP with a Series 65 designation and has been in the industry since 2020. He previously worked at National Seed from 2006 to 2020. Forum Financial Management, LP provides investment advisory and related services to individuals, retirement plan sponsors, charitable organizations, and institutional clients. The firm employs model asset-allocation portfolios based on Modern Portfolio Theory, primarily using institutional mutual funds and ETFs, and offers a range of portfolio management and advisory services including sub-advisory and back-office support for independent advisors and RIAs.

Leslie North is a financial advisor at HighPoint Planning Partners with 15 years of industry experience. She holds the CFP® and Series 66 designations and has worked at LPL Financial, LLC since 2013, alongside her role at HighPoint Advisor Group, LLC (DBA: Stonebridge Wealth Advisors) since 2012. HighPoint Advisor Group serves a broad client base including individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and corporate entities. The firm offers discretionary asset management, financial planning, retirement plan advisory, and employs a fundamental analysis approach to portfolio construction across various asset classes.

Joel Foster is a financial advisor at Kingsview Wealth Management, LLC in Chicago, IL, holding a Series 66 designation with 14 years of industry experience. He has worked at Kingsview Wealth Management and Kingsview Partners since 2017 and was previously with Edward Jones from 2011 to 2017. Kingsview Wealth Management is an SEC-registered adviser managing approximately $6.7 billion and serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm offers wealth management, financial planning, and asset management services through advisor-led and model-based strategies, including proprietary ETFs and access to alternative investments.

Mark Stasik is a financial advisor at Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc. with 21 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has been with Ausdal since 2010. Outside of his advisory role, he is an independent insurance agent specializing in health, long-term care, term life, and universal life insurance, and he provides consulting in career and success coaching on a volunteer basis. Ausdal Financial Partners is an SEC-registered investment adviser and FINRA-member broker-dealer managing approximately $2.13 billion in client assets through a network of 152 advisors. The firm offers investment advisory programs, retirement plan services, and financial planning to individuals, trusts, corporations, pension plans, and charitable organizations, with a range of discretionary and non-discretionary strategies using mutual funds, ETFs, equities, fixed income, and alternative products.

Kevin Spahn is a financial advisor at OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners with 31 years of industry experience. He holds the CFP® and ChFC® designations and has a long tenure with Northwestern Mutual, having worked there from 1993 to 2025 across various roles. Outside of his advisory work, he is involved in documenting life stories through Quintessence Legacy Planning, a non-investment-related business. OnePoint BFG provides customized financial planning and wealth management services to a diverse client base, including individuals, retirement plans, charitable organizations, trusts, estates, and corporate entities. The firm employs a range of proprietary and third-party investment models, with most client assets managed on a discretionary basis.

Harrison Sommers is a CFP® and holds a Series 66 license with 10 years of industry experience. He has worked at Root Financial Partners since 2025 and was previously with HighTower Securities, LLC for seven years. He also spent four years at Creighton University earlier in his career. Root Financial Partners provides investment management and comprehensive financial planning to individuals, trusts, estates, small businesses, and retirement-plan clients. The firm emphasizes broadly diversified, passive portfolios tailored to client objectives and risk tolerances, and offers educational programs and online academies for financial education.

Nicholas Guido is a CFP® with 11 years of industry experience, currently serving at Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC since 2013. He also owns an insurance business based in Chicago. Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC advises a diverse client base, including individuals, trusts, nonprofits, and corporations, using a long-term, diversified investment approach with customized portfolios and a range of strategies such as direct indexing and tax-loss harvesting.

Thomas Davy is a CFP® with 56 years of industry experience, currently serving at Private Client Services, LLC since 2010. He holds a Series 63 license and is based in Oakbrook Terrace, IL. Private Client Services is an SEC-registered independent investment adviser that serves individuals, families, trusts, pension plan sponsors, corporations, and charitable organizations. The firm utilizes a discovery-driven process focusing on risk profiling and tailored platform selection, offering a range of advisory services across multiple investment platforms.

Todd Flynn is a financial advisor at McAdam LLC with 11 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked previously at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments and Madison Avenue Securities. McAdam LLC is an enterprise-scale registered investment adviser serving individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and retirement plans. The firm offers financial planning, investment management, and retirement-plan consulting, employing a multi-advisor platform with approximately $2.29 billion in discretionary assets under management.

Christian Weichsel III is a financial advisor at SpiderRock Advisors, LLC with two years of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 registrations. His prior work includes roles at BlackRock Investments LLC and Citigroup, as well as a position at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. SpiderRock Advisors, LLC provides discretionary investment advisory and sub-advisory services to institutional and individual clients, employing systematic and rules-based processes combined with quantitative and fundamental analysis. The firm offers portfolio overlay and strategy management using listed derivatives and traditional securities, serving a diverse client base that includes asset managers, banks, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.

August Ericson is an advisor at The Mather Group, LLC in Chicago, IL, holding a Series 65 designation. He joined the firm in 2025 and previously worked at Dell Technologies and Hewlett-Packard Enterprises. Ericson graduated from The University of Alabama in 2025. The Mather Group serves high-net-worth individuals, family offices, trusts, corporations, and other entities by providing integrated financial planning, investment management, tax and estate planning, and family office services. The firm employs an evidence-based investment approach featuring risk-based allocation models, tax-synchronized portfolios, and customization options such as direct indexing and ESG factor portfolios.